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Response to Shakespeares A Midsummer Nights Dream
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... The Kingstone School (36101) GCSE English/English Literature Response to Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Nights Dream' In Shakespearean times, the late 1500's, the belief of magic and mystical going-ons was thought to be reality. In Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' Shakespeare plays upon the audiences power of mind as he intertwines love and the surreal fairy world with comedy. These are the main themes in the play and Shakespeare tries to show just how powerful both love and imagination can be. In this play Shakespeare uses three groups of characters to try and illustrate the power of true love and illusion. These three groups of characters are the lovers, the fairies and the mechanicals. The lovers illustrate the power of true love, the fairies represent the theme of illusion and the mechanicals shows the audience the power of dreaming which is presented in a comical fashion by Shakespeare through these characters. Shakespeare tries to make this














